Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
This 1953 photograph reveals the storefronts of both the Hobbycrafts Shop and the Dutch Boy Paint Store. The two businesses sat on the north side of J Street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets.
A stream of water is directed at a fire at McDonald Paint & Hardware Co. (188 El Camino Ave.) by a firefighter perched atop a fire ladder. Nearby businesses also threatened by the fire are the El Camino Bowl (1194 El Camino Ave.) whose sign...
"Fresh and Clean," sponsored by the California Dental Association, was one of the "Elk on Parade" on display during the late summer months of 2002. Each of the 26 fiberglass figures weighed some 150 pounds and stood nine feet tall, eight feet...
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
This circa 1960 photograph shows notable storefronts on the south side of J Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Streets. From left to right are Country Maid Creamery Restaurant, Sherwin-Williams Paints, and the Sacramento Sewing Machine and Vacuum...
Marching up J Street is a contingent of men in uniform, all carrying flags. At this point in the procession the marchers are just approaching the Eleventh Street intersection. Identifiable businesses are: The Castle Liquors (1008 J Street); A.E....
This interior shot of a full venue at the Music Circus, at 1419 H Street, was made in 1970. By 1975, the tent, constructed for a cost of 40,000 dollars, could seat nearly 2,600 viewers. The interior was kept cool by way of 1,000 feet of tubing...
Senator Garage (1209 J Street), Campbell & Boutwell Hardware (1214 J Street), Tofanelli Sea Food Company (1224 J Street), The Canteen Liquors (1231 J Street), Emigh Hardware (1300 J Street). Some of the above businesses are not visible, and some...
This circa 1943 photograph captures a World War II bond drive parade, making its way east, along J Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Streets. One truck advertises for John Berlin's motion picture "This is the Army," premiering at the Fox Senator...
Pictured on October 13, 1930, is the Collis P. Huntington, also known as Engine Number One, and first locmotive purchased by the Southern Pacific Railroad. Posing before the engine are, left to right, G.A. Knoblaugh, erecting shop foreman, Henry...
This circa 1960 photograph shows notable storefronts on the south side of J Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Streets. From left to right are Country Maid Creamery Restaurant, Sherwin-Williams Paints, and the Sacramento Sewing Machine and Vacuum...
This circa 1920 postcard shows the riverboat Fort Sutter at rest on the Sacramento River. Launched in 1912, the vessel served ably through the interwar period. However, with the advent of World War II, it was placed into service for the United...
Clad in its original silver paint, the Tower Bridge is shown, in this circa 1945 postcard, from the West Sacramento side of the Sacramento River. The facility on the opposite bak is the M Street Municipal Wharf.
This 1944 depiction of the Tower Bridge provides a view from the West Sacramento side of the Sacramento River. Since its opening in 1935, the bridge has been painted three times, including coats of gold and ochre. Its original layer of paint was...
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
